LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Sailing Boats
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. At 2.2 on the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1958, the coastguard at Mumbles told the honorary secretary that two sailing boats had capsized between Ferryside and Llanstephan. At 2.40 the life- boat Caroline...
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At 0453 on Sunday 16 May, HunstBiton lifeboat crew were called from their beds to search for a missing wvimmer. A 21 year old student from Droitwich had gone for a midnighmwim and his friends had not seen him return and were unable to...
New Life-Boat Engines. The First Life-Boat to Be Fitted With Wireless
By Captain Howard F- J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
IN 1922 the Institution, which, had then had nearly twenty years of experience with Motor Life-boats, designed an engine to meet the special and...
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Star Song
RESCUE FROM YACHT AT THIRD ATTEMPT Humber, Yorkshire. At 10.27 on the morning of the 16th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was in •difficulties two miles north-east-bynoith of Grimsby. The life...
Constellation
Weymouth: On Friday March 2, 1984, the 68ft yacht Constellation was crossing Lyme Bay on passage from Humble to Falmouth when, the weather deteriorating, the north-westerly winds rose to storm force 10. She turned about to return to Hamble...
Luisa
CREW MEMBER INJURED ON BOARD YACHT Plymouth, Devon. At 9.27 on the evening of the 13th March, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that a small white yacht with two men on board was on the breakwater 200 to 300 yards east of the fort....
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 9.15 on the evening of the 24th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flashing light giving SOS signals had been seen coming from Skomer Island. At 9.45 the life-boat...
Vanadis
GORLESTON.—Signal-gnus having been fired by the St. Nicholas light-vessel on the llth April, the Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 11 P.M., spoke the lightship and found that the guns she had fired were in response to those fired by the...
An Estonian Steamer and King Egbert
DEC. 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.20 P.M.
a message was received from the coastguard that an Estonian steamer in the roadstead had picked up a shipwrecked crew and had asked that the life-boat should...